Talking Pyramids

More Egyptian bread photos – this one from Maryanne: The Staff of Life: http://bit.ly/6TS4EP # VOCAB: (MdC): prt-xrw, (English): voice offerings, (Hieroglyphs): http://bit.ly/7peWq7 # Zahi Hawass on the Curse of Tutankamun: http://bit.ly/7hrFGQ # Playmobil’s Egyptian Pyramid brings age of the Pharaoh’s alive: http://bit.ly/5a3q5s # The results are in and the pharaohs are a hit!; King [...]

Egyptian Flour The photo to the right is of some Egyptian flour I recently bought to try. I bake a loaf every second day or so and when I saw the packet of Egyptian flour in the shop I had to try it. Last night I made the first loaf and this morning used it [...]

PHOTO: Egyptian Artifact – Book of the Dead: http://bit.ly/8cEq22 # BOOKS: Plenty of free PDFs to download at the Giza Digital Library: Complete Giza Publications List arranged by Author: http://bit.ly/63GkCB # Has anyone read Pyramids by Joyce A. Tyldesley? I've enjoyed her other writings but not read this one: http://bit.ly/6XncT1 # VOCAB: (MdC): pw, (English): [...]

Luxor features quite a bit in today’s news and so I have added a beautiful photographic slideshow of the temple. Some of those night time views are astounding. The VOCAB tweets from the past week are combined and presented as a chart on Flickr as usual and today’s chart features the Four Sons of Horus. [...]

Here is the daily news brought to you by Talking Pyramids‘ own ‘bird on the wire’ Bennu. Lots of photos and hieroglyphs today : Photo Slideshow of the Temple of El Kab: http://bit.ly/5ZHvOF Read about the site of el Kab at Osirisnet: http://bit.ly/4v3mNo # Office Hieroglyphs: Fourth and final line of the offering ritual: en [...]

VOCAB: (MdC): dwA-mwt.f, (English): Duamutef, (Hieroglyphs): http://bit.ly/7S2WE2 # Start a new adventure, play the Expedition Game: http://bit.ly/69W23W # Egypt in 3D – its Expedition Week at National Geographic: http://bit.ly/4ZMHQ5 # Sunday with mummy – 100th Anniversary. Celebration of the Albany Mummies: http://bit.ly/7fsXVD # Like an Egyptian Washington 6th-graders don costumes and present their research projects [...]

Lots of Tutankhamun news today, including a King Tut martini with 24-karat gold flecks in it! Whatever next. Also, keep an eye out for the VOCAB tweets over the next few days which are about the Four Sons of Horus this week. PHOTOS: An assortment of Pyramids of Egypt: http://bit.ly/718pX8 # Tutankhamun: gambling on the [...]